Define & Enforce Controls

Work with your suppliers to develop quality control plans. Ensure that every critical product feature, process parameter, and required task, has an associated control to prevent mistakes and control variation. Ensure that data is collected in a systematic and disciplined manner.

Monitor Quality

Automate data-analysis, and provide real-time feedback to both the supplier and the buyer's supplier quality team, ensuring a common understanding of process performance. Assess defect-risk before parts leave the supplier.

Improve Performance

Quickly retrieve data for root-cause analysis from across the supply chain. Collaborate with suppliers to improve critical processes. Easily measure and compare process performance before and after improvement projects.

Manage Suppliers

Use the Approved Vendor List (AVL) capability to manage supplier qualification, certifications and audits. Use the dashboard to measure supplier performance (DPPM), and generate scorecards at the click of a button.

Quality Planning

Zero-defect quality control requires attention to detail at the product-feature, process-parameter, and manufacturing-task level. But how do you ensure this attention to detail for thousands of features, parameters, and tasks across hundreds of suppliers with limited supplier quality resources? 1factory can help.

Use 1factory's quality planning feature, and collaborate with suppliers to quickly define controls for critical product-features, process-parameters, and manufacturing-tasks. Know how your parts are made, and ensure that inspection methods, work instructions, and inspection frequencies are clearly defined. Address quality plan differences up-front before they turn into disputes.

Systematic Data Collection

1factory enforces controls by ensuring that data is collected in a systematic and disciplined manner in accordance with the quality control plan. No more missed inspections, and incomplete quality records.

More importantly, 1factory enforces controls without becoming a burden. We recognize that your suppliers are in the best position to ensure quality at source, and we designed the 1factory system to make it easy for suppliers to easily capture measurement data. In fact, it's easier for suppliers to record data directly in 1factory than to record it on paper or in excel.

Data can be captured from keyboard, CMMs, excel spreadsheets, and barcode readers. In addition, suppliers can associate certs (e.g. raw material, heat-treatment, electro-plating etc.) with the appropriate lot number or work order number.

First Article Business Process

The purpose of a first article is to validate that the production process is capable of producing a good part. Therefore the first article review process needs to do more than simply check the first piece. It needs to confirm that the manufacturing process with which the first piece was produced, is actually representative of the on-going production process. It also needs to confirm that a quality control plan has been established and followed during production.

1factory can help you structure and manage an efficient and effective first article approval process. Whether you use simple first article reports, detailed PPAPs, or AS9102 report formats, we can help deliver a customized work-flow and experience that is appropriate for your business.

Incoming Inspection

Easily set up inspection plans (by importing spreadshets or reading and ballooning drawings). Maintain inspection plans with revision control, and change history. Be audit-ready with detailed change-logs for inspection plans and data-entry logs for inspection data. Easily manage raw material, external-processing and other certs by uploading along with inspection data.

Supplier Final Inspection / Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI)

Access final inspection data from suppliers before parts leave supplier's manufacturing facility. Identify high-risk features, assign corrective actions and work together with suppliers to ensure quality at source.

Use 1factory's quality planning feature, and collaborate with suppliers to quickly define controls for critical product-features, process-parameters, and manufacturing-tasks. Know how your parts are made, and ensure that inspection methods, work instructions, and inspection frequencies are clearly defined. Address quality plan differences up-front before they turn into disputes.

Supply Chain Monitoring / Dashboard

Real-Time Visibility: 1factory complements your existing ERP and PDM systems, with real-time access to supply chain quality control data at the feature, parameter, and task level. With 1factory, you can access supplier plans, inspections, process capability studies and CAPAs. In the event of a problem, you can retrieve data at the click of a button. No more waiting for paper or spreadsheet data to be emailed by suppliers.

Scorecard: View supplier performance over time, and output scorecards at the click of a button.

Supplier Change Control

Ensure suppliers are always building to the latest part and drawing revision level. Ensure corrective actions, design changes, manufacturing process changes, and inspection method or frequency changes are reflected in quality control plans.

Track QC Plan change history with version controlled plans. Comply with customer and industry specific change control requirements including Intel's Copy Exactly!™ requirements. Ensure a closed-loop change implementation process all the way from Engineering Change Order (ECO) to supplier's manufacturing floor.

Supply Chain Dashboard

Monitor inspection status and defect-risk across all factories and work-centers from your desktop. Easily drill-down to feature-level performance problems. Prevent defective parts from escaping to customers.

Secure and Reliable

Data Security: We encrypt data during transfer using TLS 1.2. The connection is encrypted and authenticated using AES_128_GCM, and uses ECDHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism. Data is hosted on the Amazon Web Services or AWS GovCloud hosting service. The AWS GovCloud service is an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) data. In addition, we use encrypted block storage at the hardware level to protect data and files.

Authentication: To access the system, a user must have a valid user name and password. User names are authenticated via email confirmation. Passwords are always stored encrypted. Each user is assigned a role and set of permissions, and every transaction within the system is authenticated against the user's organization, role, and permissions.

Up-Time and Reliability: 1factory has been engineered to be highly scalable and available. Over the last four years, we have not had a single unplanned outage. 1factory backs-up database with a daily snapshot. Files are stored on redundant hard-drives and backed up via snapshots.